Anyway, I'm washing my face," said Polly, "and that's what you have to do; especially after…” and then she stopped. If you let us go to dinner now,” said Polly, “we can come back after dinner.”
DIGORY AND HIS UNCLE
It was a wildly cruel thing to do,” said Digory, who had once had his own guinea pig. You will keep looking at everything from the wrong point of view,” said Uncle Andrew with a look of impatience.
THE WOOD BETWEEN THE WORLDS
Look," said Polly, "I'm not going to try a new pool until we're sure we can get back to the old one. After much arguing, they agreed to put on their green rings ("Green for safety," Digory said, "so you can't help but remember which is which"), hold hands and jump.
THE BELL AND THE HAMMER
Let's go back and look at that kind of table in the middle of the room.” It looks like there's something written here,” Polly said, bending down and looking at the side of the pillar.
THE DEPLORABLE WORD
You!" said the Queen, laying her hand on his shoulder - a white, beautiful hand, but Digory felt that it was as strong as steel pincers. We come from another world; by magic," said Polly, who thought it was high time the queen paid attention to her and Digory. Is this true?" said the queen, still looking at Digory and not even glancing at Polly.
The Queen led them out of the Hall of Statues, into a long corridor and then through a whole maze of halls, stairs and courtyards. The queen walked quickly – the children had to trot to keep up with her – but she showed no sign of fear. The last great battle, said the queen, raged for three days here in Charn itself.
THE BEGINNING OF UNCLE ANDREW’S
TROUBLES
Then she studied his face, just as she had studied Digory's face in Charn's palace. Kun returned to the forest so she managed to catch you before we jumped into our own pool. A fantastic creature.” He had also somehow managed to forget that it was the children who had gotten hold of this.
No, Andrew, dear,” said Aunt Letty in her firm, low voice, without looking up from her work. Andrew," said Aunt Letty, looking him straight in the face, "I wonder if you're not ashamed to ask for money." All you need to know about it is that Uncle Andrew, what with "managing dear Letty's business for her", and that he never does any work and runs up high bills for brandy and cigars. which Aunt Letty paid over and over again) made her much poorer than she had been thirty years before.
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE FRONT DOOR
If they are, he must rush out and grab the witch and put on her yellow ring before she has a chance to enter the house. When asked if she was in one of the parks, she answered fairly enough that she assumed it might be some kind of park. As a result, she was told that she had been very naughty indeed and that she would not be allowed to play with her.
All she had to do was wait until the end of her two hours, but every few minutes Digory would hear a taxi, a baker's cart, or a butcher's boy coming around the corner and think, "Here she comes," and then find out that it wasn't . She had a long, bright knife in her hand and had been busy cutting the horse free from the wreckage of the hansom. A man with a red face and a bowler hat had now moved with his shoulders to the front of the crowd.
THE FIGHT AT THE LAMP-POST
Near Digory in the darkness it cried about “Oh, oh, is this delirium. He immediately called up a harvest thanksgiving song, all about crops being "harvested safely". It wasn't very fitting for a place that felt like nothing had ever grown there since the beginning of time, but it was the one he could remember best. It was very far away and Digory found it difficult to decide which direction it was coming from.
It was a valley through which ran a wide and swift river, flowing eastward toward the sun. But it was a mere valley of earth, rock, and water; there was not a tree, not a bush, not a blade of grass to be seen. Her mouth was open in song and she was about three hundred meters away.
THE FOUNDING OF NARNIA
All this time the lion's song and his stately strides went on, back and forth, back and forth. But Digory and the Cabby couldn't help feeling a little nervous as each turn of the Lion's Walk brought him closer. This is where the rod fell - she tore the rod off the lamp post at home.
He followed the children at a cautious distance; for he did not want to get too far from the green rings or too close to the Lion. And now you could hardly hear the song of the Lion; there was so much crowing, cooing, crowing, crowing, snapping, baying, barking, laughing, bleating and trumpeting. The Lion opened his mouth, but no sound came out; he breathed out, a long, hot breath; it seemed to sway all the animals as the wind sways a line of trees.
THE FIRST JOKE AND OTHER MATTERS
But a cheerful jackdaw added in a loud voice, "No fear!" and everyone else had finished just before he said it, so that his words came out quite clearly in dead silence; and maybe you've found out how terrible it can be - for example at a party. Look here,” said Digory to Polly, “I've got to go after him—Aslan, I mean, the Lion. Well," said Strawberry very slowly, "I don't quite know, I guess most of us don't know much about anything yet.
You probably don't have a bit of that white on you by any chance?” said the Horse. Who ever heard of a lion singing?" And the longer and more beautifully the lion sang, the more Uncle Andrew tried to convince himself that he heard nothing but a roar. Now, sir," said the bulldog in his businesslike manner, "you are an animal, plant or mineral?" That is indeed what it said; but all Uncle Andrew could hear was "Gr-r-r-arrh-ow!".
DIGORY AND HIS UNCLE ARE BOTH IN TROUBLE
The third joke, the third joke, the third joke!" said Jackdaw in great excitement. You certainly don't mean," said Jackdaw to the Badger, "that you think it's a talking animal. And yet, you know, ” said the elephant (the female elephant, of course; her husband, you remember, had been called away by Aslan).
I tell you what!” said the donkey brightly, "perhaps it is an animal that cannot speak, but thinks it can." Why," said the Bulldog, "if a man can't trust his nose, what can he trust?". Well, sir," said the Cabby very slowly, "a fellow doesn't know exactly until he's tried.
STRAWBERRY’S ADVENTURE
He had no idea how he was going to climb the cliff and find his way through all the mountains, but he didn't like to say that for fear it would sound like making excuses. What are Eva's two daughters whispering about?” said Aslan, turning very suddenly on Polly and the Cabby's wife, who had actually made friends. If you like, sir,” said Queen Helen (for that was now the wife of Nellie the cab driver), “I think the little girl would like to come too, if it wouldn't be any trouble.”
I say,” said Polly, “I've still got the remains of that bag of toffee in my jacket. Much better,' said Digory, 'but take care to put your hand into your pocket without touching the ring.' the garden at the top.
AN UNEXPECTED MEETING
Digory himself immediately understood that the others would not and could not enter with him. And it just goes to show,” said Digory later, telling the story to the others, “that you can't be too careful in these magical places. No, thank you,' said Digory, 'I don't know that I care to live on and on, after all I know are dead.
What has the Lion ever done for you that you should be his slave?" said the witch. Mother herself,” said Digory, getting the words out with difficulty, “wouldn't like it—terribly strict about keeping promises—and not stealing—and all that sort of thing. Up then,” said Digory, tucking her onto Fledge's back and then climbing up as fast as he could.
THE PLANTING OF THE TREE
Maybe it was the air of the young world that had done it, or talking to Aslan, or both. Now," said Aslan, "some of you untangle the mess you've made of those trees, and let's see what we find there." The bear lobbed the whole sticky mass over the top of the enclosure, and unfortunately it hit uncle Andrew a punch in the face (not all the bees were dead).
One of the elephants lifted Uncle Andreas in his trunk and laid him at the lion's feet. What is it, kids?” he said, because he caught them whispering and nudging each other. Please,” he said, “can we go home now?” He had forgotten to say “Thank you,” but he meant it, and Aslan understood.
THE END OF THIS STORY AND THE BEGINNING OF
ALL THE OTHERS
Luckily the front door of the house was open and the maid was standing in the doorway staring at the fun (what a day that girl had!) so the children had no trouble rushing Uncle Andrew indoors before anyone asked any questions didn't ask. And the smell of the Youth apple was as if there was a window in the room that opened on Heaven. He stooped and kissed her very softly and with a beating heart got out of the room; take the core of the apple with him.
He couldn't bear to be simply chopped up for firewood, so he had a piece of wood made into a cupboard which he placed in his large house in the countryside. Lewis' fascination with fairy tales, myths and ancient legends, along with childhood inspiration, led him to write The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, one of the most popular books of all time. The final title in the series, THE LAST BATTLE, was awarded the Carnegie Medal, one of the highest marks of excellence in children's literature.
